The Karamoja region, which has historically struggled with food scarcity due to harsh weather conditions, experienced a bountiful harvest this season of crops like sorghum, maize, and sunflower. However, the joy over this harvest is now tempered by growing worries.
Dr. Achan emphasized the urgent need to stop this malpractice, warning that it not only denies deserving individuals the opportunity to serve but also results in a public service filled with underqualified personnel. This, she noted, leads to incompetence, inefficiency, poor service delivery, and overall detriment to the country’s development.
BIRDC boasts of extracting flour from banana fingers, locally known as “tooke flour,” which is a raw material for several forms of bakery products ranging from cake, bread, chapattis, crisps, biscuits, porridge, etc, coupled with nutritious supplements, paper extracted from banana fibre, among other products still under study.
Bilali Waiswa, the LCI Chairman of Namungalwe rural, the village where the tragedy occurred, says that the son had demanded to have his share of the money obtained from the land sale. But his father rejected his demand, and out of anger, the son hit him with a club.
The village chairperson, Godfrey Abuze says that Kabuno had wanted to sell a plot of land, an idea which the deceased rejected before the village council committee.
The suspect, whose name has been withheld by police, was picked up from unnamed clinic in Kira Municipality where he had been rushed by his colleagues for treatment for a dog bite.
The KCCA Spokesperson, Peter Kaujju told Uganda Radio Network that several meetings have been held with arcade owners reminding them to avail free toilets to traders who rent their buildings.
According to sources, land grabbing is rampant in Padolo in Erusi Sub County, Nebbi district, Patera in Atyak and Panyigoro areas in Pakwach Sub County in the newly created Pakwach district.
First, the BOU did not take Shs 478 billion from an undisclosed account. The BOU provided a loan to Crane Bank and this money came from the BOUs own resources. The BOU is a Central Bank and like any other Central Bank it can create financial assets and liabilities. In this case the BOU created a financial asset the loan to Crane Bank which was matched by an equivalent liability an increase in the money supply.
The decision to lift the ban was reached in a meeting in the Conference hall of parliament involving the speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, telecom companies, members of parliament, the Information Communication and Technology-ICT Minister, Frank Tumwebaze and Uganda Communications Commission officials.
The UCC Executive Director, Godfrey Mutabazi, told the Committee that since the scratch cards were phased out at the end of last month, statistics from different Telecom companies indicate 98 compliance to digital transition.
Tumwebaze says the electronic airtime will also improve revenue collection since URA can now tell how much airtime the telecom companies sell and also minimize the waste generated from the scratch card.
A second cloth vendor in Owino market, who only preferred to identify himself as Moses, says despite selling hooded jackets he isnt certain whether or not he will be picked up. He wants the president to reconsider his stand on the hooded clothes.
Emmanuel Mbonye, the Mukono District Council Speaker, says part of the land where the district headquarters seats was bought off by a private developer only identified as Dr. Konde.
